James Caird (disambiguation)
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James Caird may refer to:
- Sir James Caird (agricultural writer) (1816–1892), writer and politician
- Sir James Key CairdJames Key CairdSir James Key Caird, 1st Baronet was a Scottish jute baron and mathematician. He was one of the city's most successful entrepreneurs, who used the latest technology in his Ashton and Craigie Mills. James Caird was born in Dundee, and was the son of Edward Caird who had founded the firm of Caird ...
(1837–1916), jute baron and philanthropist, sponsored Ernest Shackleton's Endurance Expedition - Sir James Caird, 1st Baronet (1864–1954), founder of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
- James Caird (boat)James Caird (boat)The voyage of the James Caird was an open boat journey from Elephant Island in the South Shetland Islands to South Georgia in the southern Atlantic Ocean, a distance of...
, a whaleboat named after James Key Caird, used by Sir Ernest Shackleton